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Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old child’s shoe with laces intact

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

(CNN) — A shoe belonging to a child and dating back more than 2,000 years has been unearthed in Austria with its laces still intact.The design of the leather shoe, whose size roughly corresponds to EU 30 (US 12), suggests it was likely made in the second century BC, according to the German Mining Museum Bochum-Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources.The shoe was excavated by archaeologists in the western village of Dürrnberg, where rock salt mining took place from as early as the Iron Age, it said in a recent news release.The salt, which is particularly good at preserving organic remains, is thought to have kept the shoe in extremely good condition.“Our research activities at Dürrnberg have been providing us with valuable finds for decades in order to scientifically explore the earliest mining activities. The condition of the shoe found is outstanding,” Professor Thomas Stoellner, head of the Research Department at the German Mining Museum, said in the news release.Excavation...

Fall-like things to do in San Diego County this weekend

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Goodbye summer, hello fall. Will you be holding on to warmer days while posting up at the beach, or will you choose to welcome the arrival of autumn with a cozier activity this weekend?Either way, there's plenty to do across across the county Friday, Sept. 22 through Sunday, Sept. 24. This includes an array of Oktoberfest celebrations that stretch across the region as well the start to San Diego Restaurant Week.On top of those events, FOX 5 has created a compilation of some fall-like things to do to help you decide how to spend your leisure time. How to see wolves in San Diego County this fall San Diego-- Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival: Located at Officer Jeremy Henwood Memorial Park in San Diego, the cultural event is free to attend Saturday. There will be a lantern parade with 2,000 free lanterns being given away. There will also be carnival games, arts and crafts, as well as live entertainment including a lion and dragon dance.-- Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tou...

Where to find pumpkin patches in San Diego County

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Nothing says "fall has arrived" quite like seeing pumpkin patches pop back up across San Diego County.Whether it's to turn into a jack-o'-lantern or eat as pie, picking the perfect pumpkin is a quintessential activity for all the ghouls and boo-ys to do during the season. Luckily, America's Finest City has no shortage of great places to get a gourd or two.Here's a round-up of San Diego-area pumpkin patches to wander this autumn:Summers Past FarmHead to this whimsical farm tucked in the El Cajon foothills for a fun-filled autumn day. On top of hundreds of pumpkins to browse, there is also a small corn maze, a hay fort and plenty of opportunities to snap a picture.Location: 15602 Olde Hwy, Flinn Springs, CAHours: Thursday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Pumpkin patch runs from Oct. 1 to Oct. 31Admission: Free Fall-like things to do in San Diego County this weekend Goff Family Pumpkin PatchLiberty Station's annual pumpkin patch returns this y...

Critical incident involving RCMP, B.C. Premier David Eby says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

COQUITLAM, B.C. — British Columbia Premier David Eby says there’s been a critical incident involving RCMP in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam. A witness on the scene says she saw an officer with a bloody leg and a tourniquet above the wound. Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart says officers were injured, but he couldn’t confirm what their injuries were.Coquitlam Mounties announced shortly after 11 a.m. that an area several blocks long in a business and residential area of the city had been closed off due to an ongoing police incident. Eby told media who had gathered for a question-and-answer session after his speech to local politicians that the incident was very serious and they would release more information as soon as they could.He says the public is no longer in danger. Yan Wang manages a dental office near the area that is closed off, and says police asked them to shut the office and stay away for the rest of the day and tomorrow. This report by The Canadian Press was ...

Stock market today: Wall Street’s worst week in six months is closing out with a mixed finish

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s worst week in six months is closing out with a mixed finish on Friday. The S&P 500 was 0.1% higher in late trading, coming off an ugly slide caused by the stock market’s growing understanding that interest rates likely won’t come down much anytime soon. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 9 points, or less than 0.1%, at 34,061, as of 3:37 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.4% higher.Pressure has built on Wall Street as yields in the bond market climb to their highest levels in more than a decade. They’ve been rising for months and accelerated this week after the Federal Reserve indicated it’s unlikely to cut its main interest rate by as much in 2024 as investors had hoped. The federal funds rate is at its highest level since 2001, which grinds down on investment prices as it undercuts high inflation.Yields were easing a bit Friday, which reduced the pressure on the stock market. The yield on the 10-year Treasury slipped to...

Column: Coach Prime dominates the college football world. What might come next?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

Deion Sanders hobbles to get around these days, but his ability to command an audience is even more potent than it was during his speedier playing days.Just three games into his first head coaching job in college football’s top division, the guy who went from Prime Time to Coach Prime has been the non-stop talk of the sporting world.Given how quickly the 56-year-old Sanders moves — metaphorically speaking, as he struggles with blood-clot issues in his legs and feet — it’s certainly not too soon to ponder where this phenomenon might lead.Can the Colorado Buffaloes keep winning even with a brutal schedule ahead of them? If they do, will a more prominent school come calling for Coach Prime in the not-too-distant future? Has Sanders’ nearly complete overhaul of a downtrodden team through the transfer portal established a new template for building a program? Should every coach start wearing sunglasses?The Buffaloes, who won a single game in 2022 and have just one winnin...

Man, 26, fatally shot in Oshawa identified by police

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

Durham Regional Police have identified a 26-year-old man fatally shot at an Oshawa residence on Thursday.Officers were called to a house on Albert Street, in the area of Simcoe Street and Highway 401, around 2:25 a.m. that morning for reports of a shooting.A man in his 20s was found at the home with gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.Investigators said there were multiple people inside the residence when the shooting occurred. The occupants all fled before officers arrived.On Friday, the homicide victim was identified as 26-year-old Andrew Junior Rochester.Police have not provided any information on suspects, only saying that investigators are interested in speaking with anyone who may have been at the residence at the time of the shooting.

Takeaways from investigation that turned up gold bars, a luxury car and cash at a US senator’s home

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife are accused of taking bribes of gold bars, a luxury car and cash in exchange for using his outsized sway in foreign affairs to help the government of Egypt — and others — as well as other corrupt acts, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.Investigators say they found nearly $500,000 in cash hidden in clothing and closets as well as $100,000 in gold bars in a search of the home the 69-year-old senator from New Jersey shares with his wife. Menendez serves as the powerful chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.The indictment, the second in eight years against Menendez, and comes after a yearslong investigation that delved into his relationships with wealthy New Jersey businessmen. Menendez says he has been falsely accused but “will not be distracted” from work in the Senate, accusing prosecutors of misrepresenting “the normal work of a congressional office.”A lawyer for Menendez’s wife, Nadin...

Giorgio Napolitano, former Italian president and first ex-Communist in that post, has died at 98

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

ROME (AP) — Giorgio Napolitano, the first former Communist to rise to Italy’s presidency and the first person to be elected twice to the mostly ceremonial post, died on Friday, the presidential palace said. He was 98. A statement issued Friday night by the presidential palace confirmed Italian news reports of the death of Napolitano, who had been ailing in a Rome hospital for weeks. The current president, Sergio Mattarella, in a message hailed his predecessor as head of state, saying that Napolitano’s life “mirrored a large part of (Italy’s) history in the second half of the 20th century, with its dramas, its complexity, its goals, its hopes.”As a prominent member of what had long been the largest Communist party in the West, Napolitano had advocated positions that often veered from party orthodoxy. He sought dialogue with Italian and European socialists to end his party’s isolation, and he was an early backer of European integration. Turin daily La Stampa once wrote of ...

Quebec man sentenced to 15 months in jail for fomenting hatred against Jews

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:01:25 GMT

MONTREAL — A Quebec man convicted of promoting hatred against Jews has been sentenced to 15 months in jail and three years of probation.Quebec court Judge Manlio Del Negro said today in a Montreal courtroom that it’s clear Gabriel Sohier Chaput hasn’t grasped the seriousness of his actions or the harm he’s caused to society.Sohier Chaput was found guilty in January, after the judge ruled that a 2017 article published on the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer actively promoted hatred of Jewish people. The accused was a frequent contributor to the website, writing more than 800 articles for the online publication named after the Nazi-era propaganda newspaper Der Sturmer.Both the prosecution and the defence had recommended a three-month sentence followed by probation, but Del Negro said in July that he worried such a sentence would trivialize the crime. Sohier Chaput has admitted to writing part of the article that led to the charges, but has argued that the article w...